July 16th Progress

The frame is awesome

 

So... if the avali can't be the eight species to feature on the gate because they don't fit in right...

 

What is the gate system for Ehhh? Sorry I missed it's purpose...

 

To reach a non-random outpost that serves as a quest/trade hub. Kinda why there's an outpost shown in there.

 

The gate looks cool!

I wonder what the 8th race is?

 

That's a very nice gate you got there.... But as most people are asking, where is the 8th race? I think you should look at all the race posts in the forums, and pick like 3 people, then have everyone decide what one is the best.

 

Peglaci space goats best goats.

I wonder if we'll find harlequins in the webway

 

I have 1 question to ask. Will we be seeing gates that are connected to dungeon bosses in Mods as well in the singleplayer?

 

That looks really cool!
I want to build a base around one of those gates!

About the missing head...
Note how the one on the left is round, while the one on the right has an ear and hair.
Makes me wonder if that means there are two missing faces, or if they were just added as placeholders for the future.

The gates lead to pre-designed areas.
If you look at the portal in this picture of the gate you see a small image of the outpost!
That's the technical reason.

Lore-wise we don't know how much faster than light the ships move.
Even if the ships moved at 50 times the speed of light it could still take years to reach the outpost from a distant galaxy.

 

Actually, no, the Novakids are on there, right next to the empty space. But now, everyone has seen the empty space and will bug Tiy until he shows of a glimpse of the race.

Prepare Tiy, because now that you have shown this image, everyone will bug you about the eighth race... You have been warned....

 

"My God, it's full of stars!"

 

Holy freaking sweetness of awesome! CHANGE NOTHING! Please, for the love of... everything, change NOTHING! Leave the gate exactly as it is!!!

 

Looks keen!

To the many who have wondered why have a stargate and an FTL ship in the same milieu, here is my (admittedly third-party) understanding of how it works as presented so far.

Your ship is damaged and winds up in a star system. You fix your slow drive engines using materials from the planet you're orbiting. This lets you putter around between planets in the system. One of these will have the stargate on it.

Going through the stargate (on foot only, because it's on a planet) gives you access to the parts to repair your FTL drive, via this trade hub.

Once you fix that, you can freely fly between star systems.

The key is, I believe, that the stargates all only lead to the trade hub. You can find other stargates, but they all lead to this outpost, and only to this outpost. Furthermore, the outpost can only be reached via the stargates.

So they don't replace FTL travel in any way. They are just doors to a specific, highly useful place, that is otherwise unreachable.

 

Actually, this was revealed the first time gates were mentioned. The Outpost is inside of a "pocket dimension", not the actual normal universe. Gates let you go to the pocket dimension.
Unless they changed this, then it still (probably) holds true.

 

*conspiracy mode*
Enigmatic rainbow bunny people...strange portals...and an entire civilization of self-aware robots.


The rainbow bunny people must be plotting all of this.

 

I'm willing to bet that the 8th race is going to be
A. The precursor race
-or-
B. The Avali Race (due to popularity of mod)
If it turns out to be the Avali, they will probably not be a playable race due to the non-humanoid shape of their body. It would still be nice to see them in-game as NPCs.

 

OMG!! Look AWESOME!!!!

 

the armor conflicts are purely cosmetic even now and a full set of armor and weapons is already there. not adding them to vanilla would be impractical due to how much incredible variety and beautiful artwork is added without being game-breaking in any way. it should also be fairly easy to code the avali to only be able to use thier race specific items.

 

Guys. there isn't going to be an Eight Race. Definitely not playable, anyway. It's most likely for the precursor race. There's also a slight chance that it might be for Agarans or the even more mysterious Rainbow People.

 

STARGATE!!!! You should have a ring that spins. and a DHD that would just make me smile till i died.

Now for the question: Was it made by the Ancients or the Ori?